Thread: Homebrew beer, who's doing it?

Haha, nicely put, I'm definitely no threat to lion or db either. I'll give it a couple more tries...then I'll admit defeat and come to the dark side of witch craft and boiling pots?

I'm a slow learner though, so it will take a couple more failures for me to get there

We just opened our first bottle of chocolate malt stout. Only three weeks in the bottle but despite a lack of bubbles, bloody good.
Won't be tipping this down the sink.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

I have only done one kit beer and had similar results. Not bad but Lion and DB certainly were not getting too worried. I guess you can work them up to be better but All Grain is a good step up.
Put 30L into the boil pot today. Just have to take my girls to the circus so will finish it off tonight.

I like the pot.! Did ya put the ball valve and temp gauge on yourself?

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Originally Posted by deepsouthaussie

I like the pot.! Did ya put the ball valve and temp gauge on yourself?

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Nah. It's a off the shelf pot from http://www.brewshop.co.nz/brewing-eq...ith-ports.html.
My HLT though is a converted 20L keg. Had a mate weld 2 x 1/2" sockets on.

Three brews down now, the first was drinkable...just. the second was shit, ands was tipped out. And the third rates promising, very promising...


Kj

Ok, I'm repeating myself but what the hell its Friday and I'm getting pissed, sorry drunk, on my own stuff so what the hell: toss any instructions, they are not worth shite, brew for four weeks minimum, then bottle for at lest another four, more will improve flavour, if you get impatient then buy more bottles do you can brew more beer...

Kits are ok. But you are just rehydrating someone's else's beer, ever had rehydrated food that tasted better than fresh, just saying...biab is easy, all grain requires more equipment, buy are really big pot and get a ball valve welded on, seriously it's an investment!

1.060 into the kettle from 6.5kg grain.
This isn't going to be a session APA

That's a flash hydrometer. Mine looks like a sex toy and floats in a tube.

Kj

Originally Posted by kimjon

That's a flash hydrometer. Mine looks like a sex toy and floats in a tube.

Kj

Refractometer. Thought it would be the ducks nuts. Shame as it is so slow the hydrometer is about as fast to cool a 100ml sample. ATC supposedly but it drifts and wanders about to be such a pain in the ass.

Made this tonight, a bottle drying rack. Pretty low tech...but should work like a charm!


Kj

Just waiting patiently for this season's walnuts to grow so I can harvest some and make more norcino...molto bello...

I usae 1.5litre softdrink bottles to bottle minand wait for it I cleaned the bastards with the water blaster-stack crates on side against thedriveway fence c-feed in a hefty janola brew via wash bottle on the blaster leave for 10mins then hit em with water .
always did the job.also that long filler tube -you can just connect a piece of tubing to your tap and go from bottle to bottle pinching its end when bottle is full.